(slang) dying. The
phrase comes from animals, about to be slaughtered for food and often being
hung from a
frame scaffold, kicking out as they are
lifted into
position. Their legs
hit part of the
frame whose
French name,
buchet, is the
origin of the
word bucket. Let's - let's supposing - let's supposing this guy was married to some girl that had counted comfortably on his kicking the bucket when he got to be sixty-five because he has thrombosis of the yumbussis.